... Panksepp call our “affective consciousness,” a form of prereflective reception that arises from bodily experience. Focusing upon Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things , the article proposes a theoretical framework for interrogating the forms of priming, bias, and insight gained via these physical...

...Jean-Pierre Sonnet God's enigmatic answer to Moses' question about his name— Ehyeh asher ehyeh , usually translated “I am who I am” (Exod. 3:14)—has provoked philological analysis for centuries, often coupled with high philosophical and theological reflection; yet little attention has been paid...

... the historical and ideological dimensions of the time-space relations, we extend our experiment to three other English-language novels that span two centuries: Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818), Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West (2017). Although the authors...

... the philosophical “demotion of poetry”: a criticism of poets as motivated by the Eros of fame and of tragic poetry as at its best creating captivating images of gods and heroes which reflect their creators’ self-love and patriotic love of “one’s own,” as against any transpolitical truth. Part 4 then looks...

... this question, I discuss the relation between the geometrical method of the Ethics and its content and goal. Arguing that the deductive structure of the Ethics mirrors the causal necessity by which all of nature follows from God, I conclude that Spinoza applies the geometrical method to ethics because nothing...

... for a new way of life in a new community for the inner self who is truly seeking God. Thus, like Augustine before and Rousseau after him, Abelard writes about his own life with a philosophical aim: to display the nature of what it is to be human and to make claims about how human life ought to be lived...

... transgression of classical genre definitions at work in Kierkegaard's writing. This, in turn, can be shown to relate to Kierkegaard's fundamental religious concerns and to reflect the carnivalesque destabilization of social, cultural, and artistic forms enacted in the paradoxical figure of the God-man. © 2007...

... by the resources of fantasy. Likewise with the shift from victim/victimizer relations as witnessed nowadays by a participant to their earliest precedents in the Abel/Cain affair and, more generally, to their sources in a God-created humankind. By this boldest departure, the target of attack itself ascends...

... extension, it typifies the shuttle among language, world, and perspective whereby we make sense of discourse, always with an eye to the best fit. As literary discourse enacts this universal quest at its most artful,pragmatics would be wise to abandon the strange gods inherited from logic and align...

... on a functional approach to human beings (i.e.,“children are made to praise God who made them”). I argue that, to get an integrated account of the rhetorical appeal and the ideological potential of such a functional approach, we should inquire into the ways it mobilizes the contingencies of our evolved cognitive...

... dialogue, offers a robust response to perplexities of the sort that troubled Augustine. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2007 Anselm 1979 Proslogion , translated by M. J. Charlesworth (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press). Augustine 1984 City of God , translated...

... and Austin Busch. Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 2012. Vol. 1: xxxviii 12280 pp.; vol. 2: xxxii 11518 pp. If an almighty God created the world just as it is, He is responsible for leaving out what He left out as well as for putting in what He put in. — Charles H. Whitely...

... the Narrative Mind,” in Cognitive Poetics: Goals, Gains, and Gaps , edited by Geert Brône and Jeroen Vandaele (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter). Trollope, Anthony 1961 [1883] An Autobiography (New York: Dolphin). Vermeule, Blakey 2004 “God Novels,” in The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture...

... primarily for his own benefit. © 2007 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2007 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Augustine 1957 –72 City of God , edited and translated by G. E. McCracken et al., 7...

... understand God’s house as both a heavenly residence and its physical manifestation in an earthly temple; the “pleasures” are those of Eden and life lived according to God’s will; both fatness and river describe feasting on life’s sustenance — in Christian terms, the bread and wine that will through...

... and enchantment, the broad cultural transformations that are meant by such catchphrases as the flight of the gods, the death of God, or the disen- chantment of the world are of course not an exclusively lyric matter. Disen- chantment is here the English translation of the Entzauberung that Max Weber (1946...

... transfigured into a god, filling the poet and his followers, in the midst of a deep spiritual crisis, with the ‘‘light of new prophecies’’ (2:302).The opening poem introduces him as a bringer of light and as ‘‘Lord of Turning [Herr derWende (316), who brought about a funda- mental spiritual change...

...), is a function of the mind regarding itself ‘‘under the form of eternity (sub species aeternitatis15 Eternity is most saliently evidenced in God’s infinite love, which Spinoza (ibid.) interprets as a function of the ‘‘intellectual love of the mind towards God In other words, Spinoza sug- gests infinity...

...! under consideration in this article was used in the Septuagint, the ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. On the one hand, the psalmist addressed God through the words Κύριɛ (O Lord—Ps 115: 7; Ps 117: 25), yet on the other, the lexeme was used to express the Hebrew maledictions...

...: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson 1999 Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought (New York: Basic Books). Miles, Jack 1995 God: A Biography (New York: Vintage...